Owner of a Broken Heart

submitted by: David Minkoff

Itzik Stern is not very well and is taken to a hospital in Jerusalem. As soon as he arrives, he's checked over by a specialist and is quickly sent to their Cardiology ward where a nurse gives him some pyjamas and helps him into bed. As she is plumping up his pillow, Itzik says to her, "I'm very worried."

"Why on earth should you be worried?" asks the nurse.

"Because last week," replies Itzik, "I remember reading of a patient who was in hospital because of heart trouble, but who then suddenly died of septic shock."

"Relax," says the nurse, "that was in another hospital. This is a first-rate hospital and when we treat someone for heart trouble, he dies of heart trouble."